Special thanks to Spencer Houghton, the NDNP graduate student assistant, for his help in editing this announcement. UNT Libraries are pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress (LC) have selected us for an eighth, two-year cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This award, which comes to… Read more »
This post was written by Varda Khan, who worked for two semesters as a Student Assistant – Descriptive Metadata Writer in the Digital Projects Lab. Varda recently graduated from UNT with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Art History and minors in Arabic and Business Computer Information Systems. What is the Dallas Museum of… Read more »
In April 2025, the Texas Historical Commission selected the University of North Texas Libraries’ Portal to Texas History to receive the 2025 Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation, described by the Texas Historical Commission as, “The Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation recognizes . . the highest achievement in the preservation of Texas’ prehistoric and historic heritage.”… Read more »
This Laredo oil boom blog post comes from Spencer Houghton, the NDNP-Texas graduate student assistant working in the Digital Newspaper Unit. The March 16, 1928, issue of the Laredo Weekly opens with the headline, “Laredo’s Big Opportunity,” a call for “concerted action on the part of every agency” to “get together and make an… Read more »
Researchers from the University of North Texas Libraries are recruiting participants for an online survey, The Portal to Texas History Census, to gather information related our users and their experiences working with The Portal to Texas History. Examples of questions you might see in this survey include: how often do you visit The Portal to… Read more »
